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Apple is always looking to diversify their emoji collections. In the past few updates, we’ve seen new pictograms specifying everything from lesbian moms to personalized skin tones for emoticons. They ditched the gun emoji. And most usefully, added a taco. But this latest update seems to be taking things in a slightly more absurd direction? We can now send each other djinns, elves, a T-Rex, zombies, and somebody doing yoga. [Though, to be fair, I did find this GIF in an article with a more predictably-Apple headline: “Apple’s new emojis include a breastfeeding mother and a woman in hijab“.]

But when will finally have a button for breastfeeding hijab-wearing same-sex-parenting dinosaurs with variable skin tones? Until that day arrives, Silicon Valley still has a long way to go.

I can’t imagine how much work it is to be a mom, but I do often consider this: for every obnoxious, need, or downright terrible person in the world, there’s a mother who had to put up with them. That’s some serious strength!

We’re happy to announce that AFC’s awesome intern John Belknap has a month-long solo show that opens tonight at Special Special. Even if John weren’t part of the AFC fam, we’d recommend his work. Special Special is gallery/retail space inspired by museum stores that produces functional editions with artists. For this project, John is considering the most intimate of spaces: the bathroom.

Works include a self-portrait based on a childhood photo, printed on a shower curtain (what would our childhood selves think watching adult us shower?), limited edition postcards of bathroom interiors, and of course, GIFs. All of these components will be installed in dialogue with the architecture of the space, alongside collage and photographs.

I could watch this for hours. It reminds me of one of those perpetual-motion desk ornaments (such as the clanging silver balls, pecking birds, etc…) people seemed to have on their desks a lot in 80s workplace movies or 90s guidance counselor offices. Someone needs to invent an IRL version of this cat contraption.

I’ve always been a fan of Otto Splotch’s weird-as-hell punk illustrations. The blobby figures in his tableaus—who are usually engaged in some combination of sex, drugs, rock-n-roll, or crime—feature details from bad stick-n-poke tattoos to genital-like faces and face-like genitals.

Obviously, when I discovered that Otto Splotch makes GIFs (including this one of a strange shower orgy) there was no question that he would be our NSFW GIF of the Hump Day

Based on her tags on Tumblr, we’ll describe Argentine artist Catalina Muñoz as a “Cyberpunk Grrrl”. Her blog is full of great GIFs, including these strange tableaus of Barbie is burqas in various settings, from hot pink offices to doll houses. These are probably some of the strangest GIFs I’ve seen in a while, which is saying something.

I stumbled across Laura Berger’s adorable GIFs of nudes frolicking while looking for a NSFW GIF of the Hump Day (here at AFC, our browsers have very strange search histories). But these guys are totally SFW, as their minimalist anatomy leaves everything to the imagination. Maybe life’s just simpler when sex-less.